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Title: The American boys' handybook of camp-lore and woodcraft
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Beard, Daniel Carter, 1850-1941
Subjects: Camping Camping -- Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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g theglacier period and forced men to think or die, necessitydeveloped a prehistoric Edison among the Neanderthal men,who discovered how to build and control a fire, thus savinghis race from being frozen in the ice and kept on cold storage,like the hairy rhinoceros and elephant of Siberia. The fire of this forgotten and unknowTi glacier savage wasthe forerunner of our steam-heaters and kitchen ranges; infact, without it we could have made no progress whatever,for not only the humble kitchen range, but the great factoriesand power-plants are all depending upon the discovery madeby the shivering, teeth-chattering savage who was hop-ping around and trying to keep himself warm among theEuropean glaciers. But we people of the camp-fires are more interested inprimitive fires just as the Neanderthal men built them, than 3 CAMP-LORE AND WOODCRAFT we are in the roaring furnaces of the steel works, the volcanoblast furnaces, or any of the scientific, commercialized firesof factory and commerce.
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What we love is the genial, old-fashioned camp-fire in theopen, on the broad prairie, on the mountainside, or in thedark and mysterious forests, where, as our good friend Dr.Homaday says, We will pile on pine and spruce,Mesquite roots and sagebrush loose,Dead bamboo and smelly teak.And vriih. fagots blazing brightBum a hole into the night— Not long ago thie author was up North in the unmappedlake country of Canada, and while camping on the portagebetween two wild and lonely lakes, Scout Joe Van Vleck madehimself a fire outfit consisting of Fig. 1, a thimble made of aburl, with which to hold Fig. 2, the spindle made of balsam.Fig. 3 is a bow cut from a standing bush; not an elastic bow. FIRE )VL\KING BY FRICTION 5 such as one uses with which to shoot arrows, but a bow witha permanent bend to it. Fig. 4 is the fire-pan which is placedunder the fire-board to catch the charcoal dust as it fallsthrough the slot when the spindle is twirled. Fig. 5 is the fire-board, made of a dead balsam

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